Why Buy the Farm When You Can Paint It?

Back in mid-September I started two new paintings in my painting class. This week, almost four months later, I finished them both in the same class.

This one is a painting of the boyhood home of a good friend of mine, Mr. Dennis Gnadt -- the farmhouse he grew up in in Minnesota. The painting was commissioned by his daughter-in-law, Dawn, as a gift for him. I had hoped to have it done by Christmas, but classes ended mid-November and I don't get much painting time when I'm at home -- so I was a little slower than I anticipated. I guess that makes it more of a Happy New Year's gift...


I'll post the other one as soon as I can.